Bollocks was there.
They've literally plucked that figure from thin air
1000s upon 1000s of empty pink seats all over. 35,000 at most there today and that's despite them handing out 5k free tickets to underprivileged kids and to various workplaces across the North East through their Foundation of Light charity.
Attendance is actually "tickets distributed"... So yeah, you could give them all away and it would still count as attendance.
What you can´t fool is matchday income!
Where the fuck is the money going at Arsenal?